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Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 22 Sep 2008 08:41 PM PST
CBS (NYSE: CBS) Mobile’s EyeMobile citizen journalism application for the iPhone, which Tricia reported on first back at CTIA, has officially launched for free on the App Store and the…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 22 Sep 2008 04:04 PM PST
As we gear up for Tuesday’s EconMusic conference in London, we’ve assembled a list of the top five recent music deals by size. Given the tremors in the music industry,…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 22 Sep 2008 03:47 PM PST
Before mobile advertising even gets significantly off the ground, there’s already an example of a million-dollar settlement being paid out to people who received unwanted text messages. Clothing And Shoemaker…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Mon 22 Sep 2008 02:04 PM PST
At 10:30 a.m. tomorrow in New York (7:30 a.m. PST), T-Mobile USA and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) will hold a joint press conference to raise the curtain on their first Google…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 22 Sep 2008 12:15 PM PST
-- Pandora lining up advertisers for iPhone app: Best Buy and Beck’s beer have signed up with Pandora to be month-long sponsors of the streaming music company’s iPhone application. Best…
Posted By Rafat Ali - Mon 22 Sep 2008 08:50 AM PST
In a week that will see heavy coverage of MySpace Music when it launches, SanDisk (NSDQ: SNDK) has announced an ambitious venture to sell its microSD memory cards pre-loaded with…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 22 Sep 2008 06:42 AM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has launched what it’s calling a “mobile TV channel”, featuring short shows from some top UK hosts, to go with the imminent new N96 handset. “Capsule N96”…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Sun 21 Sep 2008 09:01 PM PST
A Venice, Calif.-based startup hopes it can capitalize on some of life’s special occasions with a mobile greeting that could be used for anything from asking someone out on a…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Fri 19 Sep 2008 05:29 PM PST
While I was at GigaOm’s Mobilize in San Francisco yesterday, I saw four companies that caught my attention among the dozen-or-so that set up tables in the lobby and outside…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 19 Sep 2008 11:10 AM PST
While 83 percent of those surveyed said they use their phones to play music, only 6 percent of all tracks on those mobile devices are purchased from mobile storefronts, according…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 19 Sep 2008 10:05 AM PST
Zed CEO Javier Perez Dolset has lashed out at the UK’s premium rate phone regulator PhonepayPlus, blaming the watchdog for “destroying” the UK D2C content market. Dolset told Mobile Entertainment…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 18 Sep 2008 03:23 PM PST
Despite the tough year Glu Mobile (NSDQ: GLUU) is having, its CEO Greg Ballard emphasized his company’s unique position as a licensee of big game brands at Goldman Sach’s Communacopia…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Thu 18 Sep 2008 08:21 AM PST
Dan Hesse’s been on the job at Sprint (NYSE: S) Nextel as CEO for nine months and made his first appearance at an investor conference in that role at Goldman…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 17 Sep 2008 03:10 PM PST
-- Games and entertainment are hottest categories at Handango: Handango released its Yardstick for the first half of the year and reported that games jumped from fourth place to first…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 17 Sep 2008 12:22 PM PST
Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) has quietly released Dashboard, a new storefront found on its phones using Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash technology, mocoNews has learned. So far, Dashboard has launched on…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Wed 17 Sep 2008 11:00 AM PST
Atlanta-based Whoop has raised $2 million in angel funding and has launched a new web-based platform for creating mobile content. The Whoop Engine is a publishing hub where subscribers can…
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 16 Sep 2008 05:07 PM PST
After every CTIA, I typically write up a list of the coolest things I saw at the show. Usually, the list includes a gadget or two, an application or game,…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Tue 16 Sep 2008 04:58 PM PST
Santa Monica-based public radio station KCRW has been using Kyte.tv for the past month and today provided some results on how the live-video streaming service has been going. The station…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Tue 16 Sep 2008 10:18 AM PST
Live mobile video broadcaster Flixwagon is trumpeting what it’s calling its “platform”. The offering is barely different from the downloadable app and web widget the Israeli and US firm began…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 16 Sep 2008 03:59 AM PST
-- Dennis Publishing gets games: Mobile games company http://www.123play.com has struck a distribution deal with independent publishers Dennis Publishing to give readers ad-funded mobile games. The deal includes its technology…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Mon 15 Sep 2008 10:49 AM PST
EA Mobile is developing games for four Eidos Interactive titles under a new distribution and licensing deal for some of the publisher’s catalog. EA will first get rights to Tomb…
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Mon 15 Sep 2008 09:25 AM PST
Napster (NSDQ: NAPS) has fallen into the arms of a surprise buyer: Best Buy. The big-box electronics giant will pay $121 million or $2.65 per share. Shares of Napster closed…
Posted By Robert Andrews - Mon 15 Sep 2008 05:06 AM PST
-- *Vodafone*music: Vodafone (NYSE: VOD) is launching Omnifone’s MusicStation unlimited subscription service in New Zealand. Subscribers will get to download and share an unlimited number of tracks, from a repertoire…
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 15 Sep 2008 04:25 AM PST
In a celeb-obsessed world, the cellphone is fast-emerging as the perfect tool for keeping abreast of gossip. In a lengthy feature, the IHT covers the number of gossip magazines and…
Posted By Matt Kapko - Fri 12 Sep 2008 12:44 PM PST
CTIA closed the week with a focus on teens. Following some seemingly requisite video footage of teens talking about their cellphones in Miami, Austin and Los Angeles, Trip Hawkins, CEO…
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